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WorksheetsAnatomy 7A Taste & Smell
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
What are the organs that contain receptors associated with the sense of taste?
Taste buds
Smell buds
Papillae
Umami
What are the elevations on the tongue that are associated with taste?
Papillae
Taste buds
Taste pores
Taste hairs
Which word means pertaining to the sense of taste?
Olfactory
Gustatory
Auditory
Windatory
Which structures are located in taste buds and have sensory receptors?
Papillae
Taste receptor cells
Smell cells
Olfactory cells
What are the openings in taste buds called?
Taste pores
Taste holes
Taste indentations
Taste hairs
What happens when a taste receptor cell is stimulated?
Gag reflex is initiated
The hairs move back and forth from excitement
Nothing
An impulse is triggered on a nearby nerve fiber
What do gustatory cells respond to?
Chemicals dissolved in mucus
Chemicals dissolved in saliva
Dry chemicals
Wind gusts
What are the basic tastes?
Umami, Sugar, Savoury, bitter, sour
Salty, Savoury, Bitter, Sweet, Umami
Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Savory, Sour
Bitter, Sour, Umami, Sugar, Salty
Once transduction has occured, the next process is...
The gustatory cortex receiving information about the tastant in order to create a taste
The signals are transmitted to the brain through nerves attached to the taste receptor
Perception of taste occurs in the gustatory cortex
Perception occurs
The last process of taste sensation to taste perception is?
Perception of taste occurs in the gustatory cortex
Perception of taste occurs in the taste bud
The nerve cells receive the tastant
The gustatory hair transmits the tastant to the gustatory cortex and then perception occurs
olfactory hairs are to _____
What occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor?
Sensation
Perception
Illusion
Sensory adaptation
The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.
Sensation
Perception
Illusion
Sensory adaptation
A mucous membrane at the top of the nasal cavity; contains the olfactory receptor neurons that respond to airborne molecules called odorants
olfactory bulb
olfactory epithelium
cribriform plate
olfactory nerve
Part of the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the cranial cavity. It has tiny holes allowing the olfactory neurons to pass through and join the olfactory bulb.
facial bones
cribriform plates
zygomatic bones
fontanel
Which of the following is NOT true of olfactory neurons?
they are smell receptors
can regenerate
bipolar in structure
located in olfactory bulb
